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Re: Best kernel-building procedure



On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:49:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:20:32PM -0500, David wrote:
> > Are you talking about the kernel.org packages here?  The diff'ing I'm
> > talking about is where you get say,
> > kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21-orig.tar.gz from Debian, and apply, say,
> > kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21-4.diff.tar.gz, from Debian..  This diff will
> > also work on a kernel.org source, too.. the only difference I see in the
> > kernel.org and Debian *orig* package is that a few files have been
> > removed in the Debian package.. I'd assume things that might not be in
> > line with their GPL rules??
> 
> Debian does not have "GPL rules". We have our own guidelines for what
> constitutes free software, namely
> http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines; the GPL is far from
> the only acceptable licence.

Yes, I realize that.. I just couldn't come up with the right term when I
was typing..  and I was just guessing at the reason for the deletion of
these files..



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